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There's lyrical prose, fantastic world building, and amazing dragon lore.
But there's also a severe lack of satisfying narrative arcs.
And for over 500 pages of story, there's so many things that were only addressed once or twice that really could have helped the pacing if they had been brought up again.
Please keep in mind that I'm also grey-ace, so while the sex scenes were well written it was mostly frustrating to have to sit through them when there could have been more time spent on, well, some semblance of a plot.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Gore, Slavery, Violence, Death of parent
Minor: Misogyny, Grief, Pregnancy, War
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War
I was very excited to start this book after all the hype it was receiving on BookTok!
I struggled a little to get into it with the heavy world building and found myself flipping to the glossary quite a lot at the start.
Raeve is a strong bounty hunter with a dark side to herself. We learn a lot more about her past through diary entries (which was also a little confusing at the start because they’re not “technically” her diary entries). I would love to get to know the dragons more, as right now they mostly feel like transport rather than super connected to their riders (other than Slatra) and we don’t know why they bond with Fae.
It was a slow and dense read but I did enjoy it and the end answered some questions but also left me wanting more. I’m excited to see where it goes!
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Fire/Fire injury
Wow. Such a beautiful writing style, and a sad tale.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Slavery, Medical content, Medical trauma
Minor: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Abandonment
This was exactly what I needed. I got lost in the story and this beautiful world. I fell in love with these characters and my heart broke over and over .
I can't wait to see where the story will lead us . It's definitely a must read!
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War
Plus I can’t stand insufferable characters and I found Raeve to be that. She had complex moments, but after getting saved by someone she just wants to slit his throat.
It felt very predictable as well, the banter felt recycled and I was like I already know this is heading to yall wanting to sleep together. I get it but you wanna kill the dude.
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment
Minor: Infidelity
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Racism, Slavery, Blood, Death of parent, War
Parker's world-building is exquisite. The world she crafted is deep and thorough as are her characters. I honestly cannot decide which of them I love more. There's a strong but flawed FMC, a giant teddy bear MMC plus beautiful, unique dragons. Plus even the side characters are equally as developed, even the ones we barely get to know in this book, clearly have fully developed back stories. I can't wait for the next installment to flesh them out further as well as the next phase of the plot. I guessed a couple of the twists right before we found out about them but they were very well done.
Highly recommend to any lover of high fantasy.
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Pregnancy, Abandonment